✦ Today, Monday, January 18, 2021, marks a special day. Today is a national holiday, Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day. It's celebrated in the U.S. What with all of the protests and things that have happened this year, I felt like I wasn't speaking up on this enough. Black Lives Matter. They do. I wholeheartedly stand with this movement, and the way people are being treated to this day because of something as insignificant as what your skin looks like disgusts me. We are all equal. We all /came from AFRICA/, and we all have ancestors who look all kinds of different. There is absolutely no way or reason that justifies treating people differently because of how they look. ✦ This project is somewhat intended for younger kids or people who don't live in the US/have not yet heard about Martin Luther King Jr. It includes pretty basic information, but if you're interested, I would definitely, definitely suggest you look more into his story!! ✦ PLEASE NOTE that most of the project is interactive - you can click, tap, press space or use the arrow keys to move from one slide to the next. However, the images are NOT interactive !! They will play through steadily, but if you're interested in seeing who someone from a particular image is, I'm pretty sure I have them all marked in the costumes. :) ✦ resources: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/02/16/unsung-heroes-civil-rights-movement-black-women-youve-never-heard/905157001/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/19/hidden-heroes-civil-rights-movement/ https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement https://corporate.comcast.com/values/csr/2018/using-our-platforms/voices-of-the-civil-rights-movement https://bestlifeonline.com/civil-rights-leaders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xXZhXTFWnE ✦ people mentioned/pictured: Bayard Rustin, Fannie Lou Hamer, Dorothy Height, Claudette Colvin, Dion Diamond, Asa Phillip Randolph, Ella Baker, Jo Ann Robinson, Charles Hamilton Houston, Hiram Revels, Amelia Boynton Robinson, Diane Nash, Shirley Chisholm, Branch Rickey, Luvaghn Brown, Daisy Bates, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Ruby Bridges, James Meredith, Fred Shuttlesworth, Pauli Murray, Frank Smith Jr., Johnnie Fullerwinder, LaVerne Spurlock, James Wright, William Massey, Cynthia Plair Roddey, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. (of course haha) Coretta Scott King, Colin Kaepernick, Harriet Tubman, Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, aand I know I'm forgetting probably at least five ✦ All text, coding, and art (aka the blobby things) are by me. Please don't use w/o credit and permission!! oh what am I forgetting this time... I'M SCARED TO CLICK SHARE I KNOW I'M FORGETTING SOMETHING
